Saudis cry foul over a ''false" film about a doomed princess
Never had a Public Broadcasting show appeared with such impassioned advance notices. Even before it was aired this week, Death of a Princess, a British-American two-hour "dramatized documentary" dealing with the 1977 executions of a married 19-year-old Saudi princess and her young lover, prompted angry blasts from top Congressmen and some of PBS'S biggest corporate backers, as well as much top-level squirming in the State Department. The cause: a sharply negative review from the Saudi Arabian government, which protested that the show presented...
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